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Depot x Bastion, 6x faster builds at half the cost

6x faster builds, 50% reduction in GitHub Actions spend

Slow, expensive builds to fast, cheaper delivery

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Why it works

The piece earns its claims with specific, attributable numbers tied to real workloads: Rust images, Go images, PR throughput, and spend are each called out separately rather than lumped into a single vague stat. The CTO quote framing the classic CTO dilemma of speed versus cost lands well because Depot's pitch is that it dissolves the tradeoff, not just tilts it. The competitive switch from Docker Build Cloud and GitHub-hosted runners is named explicitly, which sharpens the before-state.

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Name the competitor's specific limitation (GitHub's 10 GB cache cap) in the customer's own words before introducing your solution. It makes the before-state concrete without the vendor having to argue against a rival directly.

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  • Vendor Depot
  • Customer Bastion
  • Industry Fintech / Payments
  • Trigger GitHub Actions cache limits and rising CI costs creating developer friction
  • Format Written narrative
  • Structure Challenge-Solution-Results
  • Medium Web page